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How your face determines whether you'd be rich or poor

Social psychologists has said that we can reliably tell if someone is richer
or poorer than average just by looking at their face. According to them, Over
time, people's face comes to permanently reflect and reveal their experiences.

They carried out a study that found
people can reliably tell if someone is richer or poorer than average just by
looking at a “neutral” face, without any expression. People also use those
impressions in biased ways, such as judging the rich faces more likely than the
poor ones to be hired for a job, according to a paper by Associate Professors
Nicholas Rule and Thora Bjornsdottir published in the Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology.

Faces tell it all… “It indicates that
something as subtle as the signals in your face about your social class can
actually then perpetuate it.” says Bjornsdottir. “Those first impressions can
become a sort of self-fulfilling prophesy. It’s going to influence your
interactions, and the opportunities you have.” Just as interestingly, the
researchers found the ability to read a person’s social class only applies to
their neutral face and not when people are smiling or expressing emotions.

Their conclusion is that emotions mask
life-long habits of expression that become etched on a person’s face even by
their late teens or early adulthood, such as frequent happiness, which is
stereotypically associated with being wealthy and satisfied.

“Over
time, your face comes to permanently reflect and reveal your experiences. Even
when we think we’re not expressing something, relics of those emotions are
still there.”

So put on a happy face,
because your success may depend on it, according to psychology researchers at
the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science.

Science never stops
being amazing. Social psychologists now tell us that we can reliably
tell if someone is richer or poorer than average just by looking at
their face. So put on a happy face, because your success may depend on
it, according to psychology researchers at the University of Toronto’s
Faculty of Arts and Science.
They carried out a study that found people can reliably tell if someone
is richer or poorer than average just by looking at a “neutral” face,
without any expression.
People also use those impressions in biased ways, such as judging the
rich faces more likely than the poor ones to be hired for a job,
according to a paper by Associate Professors Nicholas Rule and Thora
Bjornsdottir published in the Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology.
Faces tell it all…
“It indicates that something as subtle as the signals in your face about
your social class can actually then perpetuate it.” says Bjornsdottir.
“Those first impressions can become a sort of self-fulfilling prophesy.
It’s going to influence your interactions, and the opportunities you
have.”
Just as interestingly, the researchers found the ability to read a
person’s social class only applies to their neutral face and not when
people are smiling or expressing emotions.
Their conclusion is that emotions mask life-long habits of expression
that become etched on a person’s face even by their late teens or early
adulthood, such as frequent happiness, which is stereotypically
associated with being wealthy and satisfied.